HOUSE OF WINDOWS Adina Hoffman - Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighbourhood

HOUSE OF WINDOWS: Adina Hoffman's evocation of Jerusalem seen through the prism of the neighbourhood where she has lived for nearly a decade since moving from the United States

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PUBLISHER'S BLURB: House of Windows is a compelling evocation of Jerusalem seen through the prism of the neighbourhood where Hoffman has lived for nearly a decade since moving from the United States. By focusing on the day-to-day rhythms of this close-knit community - practically a self contained village within the bustling urban landscape - Hoffman offers a rich, precise and refreshingly honest portrait of a city that is often reduced to generalization and cliche. This view of life along the border between the western (Jewish) and eastern (Arab) sides of the city will be a revelation to many readers accustomed to the symbolically overburdened Israel of news headlines and ancient historical sites. The narrative consists of a series of interlocking sketches, a constellation of intimate portraits: a Sephardic grocer, an ageing civil servant, a Palestinian gardener, a nosy mother of ten, and others.
Its gaze and ambition gradually widen to take in larger questions of identity and exile, whether that of the once (and in some cases still) poor Moroccan-Jewish residents of the area, of the formerly well-to-do and now dispossessed Palestinians who founded the neighbourhood and lived there until 1948, or of the writer herself, transplanted to her new home in the Middle East.

Book Details

Code: SKU1941

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 218

Published: 2000/2001., Arcadia Books, UK

ISBN: 1900850621

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